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Staff Picks
Rolling Warrior: The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution
By Emily Porter
Judith Heumann’s story, like so many others, shows us the power of speaking up and the power of community.
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You Should See Me in a Crown
By Lauren Kohlenberg
Don't discredit it as just another YA romance meet-cute: this book has the ability to start conversations and help people feel seen no matter their age.
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The Hollywood Spiral
By Gabbi Cisneros
After a year of spending most of the time in front of digital devices, near-future world of Paul Neilan's new book feels even more present.
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Where You Are Is Not Who You Are: A Memoir
By Gabbi Cisneros
However many issues the former CEO of Xerox, Ursula M. Burns, has encountered and sees in the world, she is also justly proud of all she accomplished at the top of the business world and is hopeful for a more moral, diverse, and humancentric business mindset in America.
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The Ascent of Information: Books, Bits, Genes, Machines, and Life's Unending Algorithm
By Dylan Schleicher
Does the information and data we’ve accumulated and carry with us as a species belong to us, or do we belong to it?
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Animal
By Emily Porter
Weaving through the pages of this woman's life, you begin to understand how Joan came to be—maybe how any woman could come to be Joan.
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Unwell Women: Misdiagnosis and Myth in a Man-Made World
By Gabbi Cisneros
Historically, women have been defined by their biology, namely their uterus and ability to bear children. Elinor Cleghorn's new book argues for medicine to look beyond biological evidence and communicate with and listen to those who know women’s bodies best: women themselves.
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The Extended Mind: The Power of Thinking Outside the Brain
By Dylan Schleicher
One of the most overlooked discoveries in all the advancements we've made in understanding how the brain functions in recent decades is that it has its limits. Science journalist Annie Murphy Paul helps us overcome some of those limits by teaching us how our cognition extends into our bodies, our environment,
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Anthro-Vision: A New Way to See in Business and Life
By Dylan Schleicher
Gillian Tett explains how the tools of anthropology can be used in every aspect of our life and work to better understand what is happening around us and why—and how to make it work better.
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An Emotion of Great Delight
By Lauren Kohlenberg
How do you walk through sorrow so deep that you cannot see past it? How do you find yourself when it feels like the world is standing against you?
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